SRFI-defined library names Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (08 Oct 2025 04:34 UTC)
Re: SRFI-defined library names Daphne Preston-Kendal (08 Oct 2025 07:32 UTC)
Re: SRFI-defined library names Peter McGoron (08 Oct 2025 17:56 UTC)
Re: SRFI-defined library names Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (09 Oct 2025 03:05 UTC)
Re: SRFI-defined library names Wang Zheng (09 Oct 2025 13:37 UTC)

Re: SRFI-defined library names Daphne Preston-Kendal 08 Oct 2025 07:31 UTC

On 8 Oct 2025, at 06:33, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz> wrote:

> * Some names, like "mixing-definitions-and-expressions", are
>  needlessly long.  Finding short names is notoriously tough, but
>  standardizing a long, ugly name for the sake of standardizing
>  *some* name is a bad idea.

This SRFI in fact does not need a name as it exports no identifiers; it rather changes core language semantics. Once again, the SRFI fails even to consistently apply its own principles about which SRFIs are eligible for names.

Daphne